Richard le Scrope

Richard le Scrope (1350-8 June 1405) was Archbishop of York from 1398 to 1405, succeeding Robert Waldby and preceding Thomas Langley.

Biography
Richard le Scrope was born in 1350, the third son of Henry Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham. He became rector of Ainderbey Steeple in 1368, Warden of the free chapel of Tickhill Castle, deacon in 1376, and priest in 1377. In 1378, he became chancellor of the University of Cambridge, his alma mater. From 1382 to 1386, he served as a Papal chaplain, and he became Bishop of Chichester in 1385, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in 1386, and Archbishop of York in 1398. In 1403, he backed the House of Percy's uprising against King Henry IV of England, and he led his own uprising in 1405 with the backing of Thomas Bardolf, 5th Baron Bardolf and Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk. However, he was captured at a parley with Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and was summarily put to death by King Henry, despite the objections of William Gascoigne, who supported a fair trial instead.